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To: hlpinout who wrote (55066)	3/29/1999 8:53:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

hio: The content of this story is not new. Shopping.com had a market cap of about $20 million not long before CPQ paid $200 million for it. Its chequered past was also commented on a the time of the purchase. Defenders of the purchase have always said that COMPAQ's ownership immediately dispenses with all the financial shadows dodging it, COMPAQ technology, including AV's will beef up its volume and capabilities, and, in time its value will double or triple.

To: hlpinout who wrote (55066)	3/29/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Posted 29/03/99 2:45pm by Mike Magee Compaq outlines low end Linux strategy The Compaq strategy to link Linux, Alpha and its own Tru64 Unix took further shape today as a senior exec at the company outlined its plans. Jesse Lipcon, high performance server platform manager, and with overall control of both Alpha chips and the platform, said in the clearest statement of Compaq to date that its own chip was the platform of choice. He said: "Alpha is 64-bit and has been since 1992." If and when Merced and Intel's IA-64 platform have market share, Lipcon said he had no doubt it would be successful. He would not comment on whether it was late or not. Said Lipcon: "With our Unix platform, typically our competition is HP, IBM and Sun and it depends on applications." He said Tru64 was aimed at data warehousing, high performance applications and Internet servers. Many small Web servers use Linux-Apache combinations and as they grew they would move over to Alpha-Tru64 platforms, said Lipcon. "We see Tru64 as complementary to Linux," he said. "but with both running on the Alpha platform. It's a little brother, big brother relationship." He said: "We believe Linux-Alpha is a great platform. The highest volume of small Web servers tends to be Apache on Linux." He said big machines like ALTAVISTA and YAHOO typically used Tru64. "We're building bridges between Linux and Tru64. Alpha platforms will spread across our entire product line. This is no secret. We certainly have every interest in shipping EV6 across our whole line in the very near future." The reason for that, he hinted, was that Linux ran extremely well on the Alpha platform. ®